zhijun zhang in scholat-k8凯发旗舰

my main research interests include neural networks, robotics, human-robot/computer interaction, and numerical optimization. in school of automation science and engineering, south china university of technology, i am working as a full professor since 2019 and as an associate professor from 2015 to 2019. from 2013 to 2015, i was working as a research fellow in institute of media innovation in nanyang technological university in singapore (ranked 39th among the world’s top universities by qs). i graduated from sun yat-sen university (top 10 u in china) in 2012. 

i have published more than 80 scientific papers as author or co-author, including 52 sci journal papers, 20 ieee trans regular papers published/accepted by the first author/corresponding author, 2 english book chapters. there were 39 papers in jcr 1 district. some of the papers are published by sci-indexed international journals and ei-indexed conferences, such as ieee transactions on automatic control, ieee transactions on neural networks and learning systems, ieee transactions on mechtronics, ieee transactions on cybernetics and so on. in addition, i have 14 authorized patents of invention and 6 authorized patents of utility models and more than 80 patents of invention submitted to patent office in china. in my research areas, i have won many awards and scholarships, such as best paper award of the ieee ical 2011, excellent post-graduate scholarship in sysu, excellent poster in the 2nd guangdong post-graduate student forum, the first prize of hong kong yun hao company supporting scholarship, the first prize of “challenge cup” in guangdong province, and 4 times the first prize scholarship for excellent students. 

during the past 5 years, i have presided and participated in many research projects related to my research interests, such as the national natural science foundation under grants 61603142 and 61633010, the guangdong foundation for distinguished young scholars under grant 2017a030306009, the guangdong special support program under grant 2017tq04x475, the science and technology program of guangzhou under grant 201707010225, the fundamental research funds for central universities under grant x2zdd2182410, the scientific research starting foundation of south china university of technology, the national key r&d program of china under grant 2017yfb1002505, the national key basic research program of china (973 program) under grant 2015cb351703, and the guangdong natural science foundation under grant 2014a030312005. furthermore, i have been employed as a teacher or teaching assistant (ta) by three universities since 2006. in 2010, i (as the member of the expert group in sysu) coached the “robot contest team” of sun yat-sen university to take part in “asia-pacific robot contest”, and achieved wonderful result.